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MISSEL DES CHARTREUX

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CARTHUSIAN MISSAL. Latin manuscript from the first half of the 16th century. 190 pp. in-12, brown and red inks, ½ vellum binding, spine ribbed, muted. Slight wetness on the first pages. Ex-libris L. Froissart. Elegant missal for the use of Carthusian monks, beautiful ruled and rubricated writing, the last 3 pages in a later hand. The first part ends with the date of November 20, 1544, and a mention added later "triginta et octo circiter annos ante novam collectionem statutorum ordinis. The second part takes up the rules observed during the offices.